— Jonas re-elected chairman

A NEW and United Guyana (ANUG) will be hunting for new members and ideas moving forward as the party aims to empower citizens and right-thinking voters to reject race politics while building goodwill.

This was disclosed by Attorney-at-Law Timothy Jonas, who was re-elected Chairman of ANUG. Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran was also re-elected General-Secretary of the party when its Annual General Meeting was held on Tuesday.

After the conclusion of the protracted elections process, ANUG, in a press statement, said it had reached out to the communities which have given the party an ear and have thanked them.

The party’s plan is to continue building goodwill, Jonas said, emphasising that it is for the new executive to determine the direction of the party and work together to build Guyana.

The Chairman spoke about the party’s outreach efforts leading up to the elections and commended the result of the joinder seat.

Jonas recounted the experiences of party members who witnessed the events at the Ashmin’s building and lauded their role in the collective movement along with the interventions of various international leaders to ensure democracy prevailed.

Meanwhile, Ramkarran thanked members for their role and unwavering support in ensuring the integrity of the 2020 elections results and expressed the view that it was the sterling efforts of the party’s members which brought the name of ANUG to national prominence.

Ramkarran mentioned that members from the government, civil society and international stakeholders have reached out as a result of the party’s performance over the election period.

He also mentioned that the party must strive to reach out to both sides of the political cross section.

The meeting concluded with the election of the new executives to the following posts: Chairman – Timothy Jonas; General Secretary – Ralph Ramkarran; Assistant General Secretary – Altria King; Finance secretary – to be determined as there were two persons with the same number of votes; and Organising secretary – Kian Jabour.

The 10 Committee members are Alex D’Aguiar, Stephen Patterson, Mark France, Celina Krishna, Bruce Comacho, Mary Correia, Niall Stanton, Javeed Ally, Bhavita Sukh and Dirk Walker.